This article, London’s Dreadful Visitation: A Year of Weekly Death Statistics during the Great Plague (1665), was...
History
In the 1950s, ‘coming out’ meant acknowledging sexual orientation. Today, the term is used by a broad...
In primary texts, figures are addressed by medieval authors using both male and female pronouns interchangeably and...
Leprosy and compulsory segregation were connected through the ‘colonial gaze’. Abstract This article is looking at colonial...
As the Union grew during the two centuries after the founding, state constitutions increasingly included enumerations of...
What if we understand the play as a story about the disabled body as it was configured...
Antony was popular as a tribune and sought vengeance for Caesar before joining Cleopatra and falling out...
Jefferson, ever sanguine, was merely trying to make the best of a wretched scenario. A yellow-fever epidemic...
He wrote of everything from daily death counts to quack remedies. Introduction In early April, writer Jen...
His reign is commonly considered to mark the end of the golden period in the history of...
The bronze colossus originally portrayed Nero, thereafter Commodus, before it was given its present appearance in the...
Examining the slow transition whereby reputable practitioners differentiated themselves from ‘quacks’. Abstract Trust is not automatically granted...
Kircher’s investigation can be seen as an important early step to understanding contagion. This article, “Invisible Little...
The Plague ushered in a new understanding which found expression in movements such as the Protestant Reformation...
The Aeneid was written to praise Augustus by drawing parallels between him and the protagonist, Aeneas. Introduction...
The Hellenistic world which had had no monarch for half a decade after Alexander suddenly had a...
A woman tells the story of her Holocaust survival through her embroidered art. “I am not going...
An exhibit touring many sites where Jewish culture and medicine intersect. By Paula Wasley Introduction Your bubbe was not...
Any idea of separation of church and state was anathema until our Framers, knowing this history, guaranteed...
The fact that the Puritans had left England to escape religious persecution did not mean that they...
The text of the inscription is a statement by Darius I of Persia, written three times in...
Marx was a seminal figure in twentieth-century landscape design and plant conservation. By Tom Christopher Born in...
Sentenced to death but acquitted in a public trial based upon his father’s appeal. The Story According...
The early Achaemenid kings may or may not have been adherents of Zoroastrianism but that religion would...
Whether we like it or not, John C. Calhoun is still very much with us today. Originally...
Why aren’t Delaware and Georgia included and why did he combine four northeastern colonies into one? The...
The Spanish saw nothing of value in the indigenous culture and set out to systematically destroy everything...
Trade routes spanned China in early Shang dynasty times, but it was from mid-Zhou times that commerce...
How did extraction, production, and exchange shape the physical and cultural landscape of North America? Originally published...
Introduction Manuscripts and printed books—like today’s museums, archives, and libraries—provide glimpses into how people have perceived the...